PSYCHOLOGY MEMORY PRACTICE EXAM 2026-2027 (4pages)

Level or store in human memory with limited capacity and, without benefit of rehearsal, of brief duration - ANSWER STM (short term memory) A set of systems involved in the acquisition, storage and retrieval of information - ANSWER Memory no break between learning trials - ANSWER Massed-Practice rest intervals are interspersed among the learning trial - ANSWER Distributed-Practice life events and personal experiences are stored - ANSWER Episodic sensory store associated with hearing - ANSWER Echoic helps us organize information about the characteristics of people - ANSWER Person Schema memory involves the acquisition of, retention and retrieval of, performance skills, like a tennis stroke or golf swing. - ANSWER Procedural keeping information in memory for further use - ANSWER Storage using imagery during encoding to aid retrieval - ANSWER Key word method vocabulary, concepts, language rules, and facts - ANSWER Semantic sensory store associated with vision - ANSWER Iconic extent to which new information evokes associations with information already in the LTM - ANSWER Meaningfulness A memory so disturbing that a person has pushed it into the unconscious where it is no longer readily available for retrieval - ANSWER Repressed loss of memory for events that occur after the onset of amnesia. - ANSWER Anterograde Amnesia loss of memory for events that occurred before the onset of amnesia - ANSWER Retrograde Amnesia ideas about how events should occur, also called scripts - ANSWER Event Schema